"But what about Black-on-Black crime?" It's a retort sometimes heard in the context of the protests surrounding the death of George Floyd and Black Lives Matter -- often as the idea that there is ...

What that means is, for a long time in our country's history, black people were most likely direct descendants of enslaved Africans. Watkins-Hayes described the adoption of the term African ...

Unemployment among Black Americans last month reached its highest level in more than three years, in stark contrast to the broader labor market’s resilience. The jobless rate for Black Americans ...

Black women and femmes keep developing radical ideas about social transformation. But even as their ideas are coopted, their victimization remains on the margins.

Black-owned banks have far fewer assets at their disposal than major players in the banking industry. OneUnited, the largest Black-owned bank in the U.S., manages around $625 million in assets.

For Black women, the percentage of those never married grew to 49% in 2022, up from 37% in 1990. 30% of Black Americans are married, compared to 48% of the U.S. population overall.